NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

As the Large Magellanic Cloud drifts closer to the Milky Way, its newly discovered black hole may one day encounter ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

From signs of life on Mars to an interstellar visitor and weakening dark energy, 2025 reshaped space science, raising the ...

Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a ...

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that even supermassive black ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...